Marhaen Dan Rakyat

Keputusan Parti Ikatan Demokratik Malaysia (MUDA) untuk meletakkan Rashifa Aljunied sebagai calon di kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Puteri Wangsa pada Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) Johor 2026 menimbulkan persoalan besar dalam kalangan pemerhati politik. Puteri Wangsa bukan sekadar kerusi biasa, tetapi merupakan simbol kemenangan pertama MUDA pada PRN Johor 2022. Ketika itu, Amira Aisya berjaya menewaskan calon Barisan Nasional (BN) dan Pakatan Harapan (PH) dengan majoriti selesa. Namun, empat tahun kemudian, Amira Aisya memilih untuk tidak mempertahankan kerusi berkenaan. Alasan yang diberikan adalah beliau mahu memberi tumpuan kepada kerusi Parlimen menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-16 (PRU-16). Walau bagaimanapun, dari perspektif politik, keputusan itu menimbulkan tanda tanya, adakah Amira Aisya sebenarnya gagal membina pengaruh di Puteri Wangsa? SUMBER: https://www.utusan.com.my/nasional/politik/2026/06/kerusi-dun-puteri-wangsa-milik-pkr-amanah-johor/ Puteri Wangsa mempunya...

When Syed Saddiq launched the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance in September 2020, the ambition was legible and, in its way, sincere. A multiracial, youth-centric third force that would break the ethnic transactionalism of Malaysian politics and give a generation of disillusioned voters somewhere credible to go. The appetite was real. The platform was coherent enough. What MUDA never built, in five years of trying, was the institutional depth to turn appetite into seats. The foundational problem was structural and visible from the start. MUDA's identity was never separable from Syed Saddiq's. Voters, analysts, and ordinary observers referred to it consistently as his party rather than its own thing. This was not incidental. A party that exists as an extension of one person's brand does not develop the local networks, the ideological coherence, or the organisational memory needed to survive what politics will eventually deliver: electoral defeat, legal jeopardy, or si...